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Example sentences for "scrutinizing"

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scrutinising; scrutinisingly; scrutinize; scrutinized; scrutinizes; scrutinizingly; scrutiny; scryer; scuba; scud
  1. They pass down the row, scrutinizing each face.

  2. With little kisses in each of your eyes," he said, scrutinizing them.

  3. Scrutinizing her eyes he was glad to notice once again how intelligent they were.

  4. He knew that the woman scrutinizing him so coolly came well within this category.

  5. Pausing at shrubbery along the shore and scrutinizing of projecting branches is through knowledge of how she was saved from that lake immersion.

  6. A minute or two passed in silence, the old man's eyes fixed on Helmar's face with the scrutinizing interest of the patient who awaits the professional verdict.

  7. So noticeable and so unlike himself did his inattention finally become that the girl stopped short in something she was saying to turn his face toward hers, scrutinizing it as though she sought to read the trouble there.

  8. Scrutinizing them with care, it was not until the very end of the procession was reached that Carleton started suddenly forward.

  9. He looked at her and hastily turned away, scrutinizing other faces.

  10. I expected to see you there," said Vronsky, scrutinizing Serpuhovskoy.

  11. I am going to see her now," he said in French, carefully scrutinizing Golenishtchev's face.

  12. Scrutinizing the note, the porter's assistant stopped her at the second glass door.

  13. Stepan Arkadyevitch, noticing that Levin was scrutinizing the picture.

  14. I had found her a place as teacher in a young ladies' seminary solely to withdraw her from the espionage of the revolutionary police, which had become more scrutinizing than ever.

  15. The corporal stood higher up the bank, scanning each clump of grass and reeds with keenly scrutinizing eyes.

  16. The corporal regarded him with scrutinizing eyes, his manner stamped with official austerity.

  17. Bud and Romper looked up in time to see Dick Austin, the boy from Arizona, scrutinizing the three machines that were lined up at the curb.

  18. The drawings traveled from hand to hand, each lad scrutinizing them carefully for some fault in the mechanical detail.

  19. Kennedy had again lifted his glass and was attentively scrutinizing them.

  20. It was a very stylish equipage; the driver was not on his box, but was standing by his horses and seemed to be scrutinizing the people who passed.

  21. To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.

  22. But now, looking down the line, I saw the guard suddenly commence taking off the prisoners' hats, carefully scrutinizing them.

  23. On their front was Tiptonville, with the cavernous eyes of the Carondelet and the Pittsburgh ominously scrutinizing them.

  24. At Upperville, the next day, I inquired of a woman who was scrutinizing us from her door: "Have you seen any Rebel pickets this morning?

  25. Jogglebury sat silent for a time, examining his feet attentively as if to see they were pairs, and scrutinizing the bags of his cinnamon-coloured trousers.

  26. No, I won't do it," said Lippo again, after scrutinizing the unusual performance.

  27. But how would she be regarded when the announcement of Mrs. Wilfrid Pole brought scrutinizing eyes and gossiping mouths to bear on her?

  28. When the bill was presented our host scanned it carefully, scrutinizing each item and making his own addition, altogether "like a thoroughbred.

  29. They stood still, they gazed upon each other; as they gazed they started; their arms dropped by their sides; they stood anxiously scrutinizing the countenance of each other, in which each saw himself as in a glass.

  30. Next forenoon she went to the bank, as she had often done for her father before; and the document being in her handwriting, as prior ones of the same kind had also been, no scrutinizing eye was turned to the signature.

  31. Mortified that he had been outwitted by following a pair of moccasins instead of the object of his revenge, he bitterly complained, resolving not to give up the pursuit, and to be more wary and wise in scrutinizing signs.

  32. I should not have noticed it, myself, but, of course, the people at the bank are experts, constantly scrutinizing signatures and scrutinizing them with a very critical eye.

  33. After closely scrutinizing the map and the chart and comparing the one with the other, he said: "By mere inspection it seems fairly easy to identify the thoroughfares that correspond to the lines of the chart.

  34. Montoni seemed to doubt this assertion, for he regarded her with a scrutinizing look; and the doubt evidently arose from no trifling interest.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrutinizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.